The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.

Behind these texts, I feel the presence of the pope himself, of a person who has gone to the Lord, but who has not become distant.